www.paypal.com/us/home speed test — 20 Oct 2026
Measured from the wfix.shop server on 20 October 2026 at 12:35 UTC. Grade A (90/100), with the screenshots, the timings and the fixes that matter.
Where the first byte went
- DNS lookup 50 ms 22%
- TCP connect 43 ms 19%
- Server wait 136 ms 59%
Measured on the connection that fetched the HTML. Every other request on the page waits for the end of this bar before it can start.
How this page compares
Every report published here is in this comparison, so it is a reference population of pages tested from one server - not a benchmark of the whole web.
What these numbers mean
- The first byte arrived in 229 ms. That is workable, and the cheapest win left is caching or a warmer connection.
- The page transfers 890.0 KB over 26 request(s). Javascript files are 47% of it, so defer what is not needed for the first screen, and drop tags nobody uses.
- The HTML itself arrives br-compressed.
- It runs over HTTP/3, so the assets share a connection instead of opening one each.
- 89% of the weight comes from other hosts (analytics, fonts, embeds), which also means their slow day becomes your slow day.
- The largest element painted at 652 ms, inside the 2.5 s Google calls good.
- The main thread was blocked for 352 ms, so taps and scrolling wait while scripts run.
Fix first: Render-blocking resources - Add defer or async to scripts that do not change the first paint, inline the critical CSS, and load the rest with media="print" plus an onload swap.
Read on one shared server, not a visitor's phone: use it to compare pages against each other, not as a promise about every connection. We fix what these tests find.
Screenshot
What the page looks like
Loaded in headless Chromium on this server. Click an image to open it full size.
Browser render
The same URL loaded in a real browser, so these are the readings curl cannot produce. The grade above is still built from the server measurements.
Page weight by type
What the page is made of
Transfer size, compressed as sent. 26 request(s) in total, 890.0 KB across all of them.
Top issues
Render-blocking resources
high impact9 render-blocking resource(s) in the document head (2 script(s), 7 stylesheet(s)). The page cannot paint until each one arrives.
Fix: Add defer or async to scripts that do not change the first paint, inline the critical CSS, and load the rest with media="print" plus an onload swap.
Total page weight
medium impactThe page transfers 890.0 KB across 26 request(s), with the document itself at 95.4 KB.
Fix: Work through the heaviest assets first: images, then fonts, then third-party scripts.
Third-party weight
medium impact3 third-party host(s) serve 794.6 KB of this page. Each one is another DNS lookup, TLS handshake and point of failure you do not control.
Fix: Self-host the libraries you can, drop the tags you cannot justify, and preconnect the ones you keep.
JavaScript weight
medium impact1 JavaScript file(s) over 200 KB: pp-com-components-pds60--winACgS.js (286.3 KB)
Fix: Split routes, remove unused dependencies, and prefer a two-file build (one pinned library, one application bundle) over many small ones.
Avoid extra redirects
medium impact2 redirect hop(s) before the page load started, each one a full round trip before the first byte.
Fix: Link to the canonical URL (and make sure http, the apex domain and www all point at it) so no visitor pays a redirect first.
Waterfall
Slowest requests
Each bar is one request's own response time, scaled to the slowest. Assets were fetched in parallel, so the bars overlap in real time rather than stacking. first party third party
| Request | Type | Status | Time | Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://www.paypal.com/us/home/auth/createchallenge/40cb8607edc8ca76/recaptchav3.js | javascript | 301 | 1.00 s | 0 B |
| https://t.paypal.com/ts?nojs=1&pgrp=main%3Amktg%3Apersonal%3Ahomepage%3Ahome-uncookied-consumer&page=main%3Amktg%3Apersonal%3Ahomepage%3Ahome-uncookied-consumer%3A%3A%3A&qual=&comp=ppcmsnodeweb&tsrce=ppcmsnodeweb&cu=0&ef_policy=gdpr_v2.1&c_prefs=&pxpguid=&pgst=1792499445715&calc=f1883824e874b&csci=f65256674d122&nsid=P8zB1c0NZwTWN9iDsq3LX_CAULafGCkc&rsta=en_US&ccpg=us&pgtf=Nodejs&s=ci&env=live&xe=112102%2C112068%2C114987%2C115262%2C110574%2C114972&xt=184116%2C162135%2C184295%2C186242%2C151783%2C186232&pp_ref_id=3aab33b2-e853-46ac-8957-33588e41f742&pgsf=personal&bzsr=main&lgin=out&page_type=ecm&shir=main_mktg_personal_homepage&pros=1&event_props=cu%2Clgin%2Cpage%2Cxe%2Cxt&event_name=ppcom_page_viewed&page_segment=ppcom&user_props=cu%2Cxe%2Cxt&lgcook=0&server=fastly-edge&space_key=SKDENK&space_name=core&entry_id=7cHqRuJB09hCYLzkxvOqxT 3rd party | images | 200 | 991 ms | 42 B |
| https://www.paypalobjects.com/marketing/pp-com-components-pds60/themes/paypal60-DJqhL8L_.css 3rd party | css | 200 | 946 ms | 4.8 KB |
| https://www.paypalobjects.com/marketing/web26/oslo/oslo-consumer/desktop_homepage_hero.jpg?quality=40&width=300&format=webp 3rd party | images | 200 | 930 ms | 4.1 KB |
| https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-T562K64Q>m_auth=Eg6_8DFvj_jAZECGzReaAw>m_preview=env-1>m_cookies_win=x 3rd party | html | 200 | 924 ms | 92 B |
| https://www.paypalobjects.com/marketing/web26/oslo/oslo-consumer/desktop_homepage_hero.jpg?quality=40&width=300&format=avif 3rd party | images | 200 | 917 ms | 3.4 KB |
| https://www.paypalobjects.com/marketing/web26/oslo/oslo-consumer/mobile_homepage_hero_fifestyle-fullbleed.jpg?quality=40&width=300&format=avif 3rd party | images | 200 | 910 ms | 5.7 KB |
| https://www.paypalobjects.com/webcaptcha/ngrlCaptcha.min.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 906 ms | 7.8 KB |
| https://www.paypalobjects.com/marketing/web26/oslo/oslo-consumer/mobile_homepage_hero_fifestyle-fullbleed.jpg?quality=40&width=300&format=webp 3rd party | images | 200 | 905 ms | 7.6 KB |
| https://www.paypalobjects.com/martech/tm/paypal/gtm-bootstrap.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 904 ms | 1.1 KB |
| https://www.paypalobjects.com/ppcmsnodeweb/pp-com-components-pds60/datadog-DNPX-sGw.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 900 ms | 51.1 KB |
| https://www.paypalobjects.com/globalnav/css/main-h6rr7q38.css 3rd party | css | 200 | 899 ms | 19.3 KB |
| https://www.paypalobjects.com/marketing/web26/oslo/oslo-consumer/mobile_homepage_hero_fifestyle-fullbleed.jpg?quality=40&width=300 3rd party | images | 200 | 895 ms | 11.3 KB |
| https://www.paypalobjects.com/marketing/pp-com-components/fonts/PayPal%20Pro/PayPalProSWeb-Book.woff2 3rd party | fonts | 200 | 893 ms | 28.6 KB |
| https://www.paypalobjects.com/marketing/pp-com-components/fonts/PayPal%20Pro/PayPalProSWeb-Black.woff2 3rd party | fonts | 200 | 891 ms | 26.5 KB |
| https://www.paypalobjects.com/globalnav/css/themes/paypal60-C8Np0cJk.css 3rd party | css | 200 | 889 ms | 2.0 KB |
| https://www.paypalobjects.com/ppcmsnodeweb/pp-com-components-pds60/pp-com-components-pds60--winACgS.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 888 ms | 286.3 KB |
| https://www.paypalobjects.com/marketing/pp-com-components-pds60/component-chunks/HomepageHero-Cvb27bqe.css 3rd party | css | 200 | 886 ms | 6.2 KB |
| https://www.paypalobjects.com/marketing/pp-com-components-pds60/component-chunks/StickyQrBadge-CxXGkpIO.css 3rd party | css | 200 | 886 ms | 2.4 KB |
| https://www.paypalobjects.com/marketing/pp-com-components-pds60/component-chunks/TextGroupTemplate-BUiPyug0.css 3rd party | css | 200 | 886 ms | 1.8 KB |
| https://www.paypalobjects.com/ncs/ncs.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 882 ms | 2.9 KB |
| https://www.paypalobjects.com/globalnav/js/main-BiS6gMAC.js 3rd party | javascript | 200 | 877 ms | 66.7 KB |
| https://www.paypalobjects.com/marketing/pp-com-components/fonts/PayPalPro/PayPalProTextVFWeb.woff2 3rd party | fonts | 200 | 872 ms | 235.5 KB |
| https://www.paypalobjects.com/globalnav/css/themes/tailwind-properties-09746872.css 3rd party | css | 200 | 868 ms | 436 B |
| https://www.paypalobjects.com/marketing/pp-com-components-pds60/component-chunks/helpers-CwpXQ05K.css 3rd party | css | 200 | 865 ms | 19.1 KB |
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